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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ealdor-bisceop

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1 ealdor-bisceop

Add: a chief priest, high priest of the Jews :-- Cwæð se ealdorbiscop dixit princeps sacerdotum (Acts, 7, 1), Hml. Th. i. 46, 6: ii. 422, 20. Ðá gýtsigendan ealdorbiscopas, i. 406, 5. Þám weardmannum þe wǽron ásænde fram þám ealdorbisceopum tó Crístes byrgenne, Hml. A. 78, 153. Hé gesamnode ealle þá ealdorbiscopas congregans omnes principes sacerdotum (Mt. 2, 4), Hml. Th. i. 78, 10. ealdor-bisceop
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛠᛚᛞᚩᚱ-ᛒᛁᛋᚳᛇᛈ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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